Tweaks to gun law included in state budget

Cuomo indicates support for revisions to law

12:05 AM,
Mar. 26, 2013

Written by

Jon Campbell and Jessica Bakeman
Albany bureau

A state budget bill introduced late Sunday indefinitely suspends a provision of New York's controversial gun-control law that prohibits the sale of 10-bullet magazines, a change that legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo indicated recently that they would support.

The Education, Labor & Family Assistance portion of the budget makes clear that eight, nine or 10-bullet capacity magazines will still be available for purchase in New York after April 15, the effective date by which they were supposed to be banned. Owners, however, will only be able to load seven bullets into the 10-round ...